It will also be likely that the cap ceiling officially doubles from when it was first introduced in 2005.
Sure, it was a different time, but when you had players like Jagr, Lidstrom, Yashin, Sakic and new contracts like Iginla and friends making 7M+ that year, contracts with AAV of doubled that in a time when the ceiling is doubled isn't completely crazy. Even contracts like Drury and Gomez'in 2007-2008 would work out to be about 12M today and at no point were either of them ever on Tavares' level.
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